It’s Simon Mayo!

By | February 6, 2012
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Well it’s an unexpected one but actually quite a decent choice as he was good on Winning Lines and Confessions, but it looks like Simon Mayo will be hosting Blockbusters. Filming starts this week.

In other news, Alexander Armstrong’s Big Ask begins this evening at 9pm on Dave, it sounds like Series 6 of Pointless with the new head to head round begins next Monday, and it’s another De Mol Monday, and we’re talking about it here.

Notices 3rd Feb 2012

By | February 3, 2012
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  • Some quite good celebs lined up for The Million Pound Drop over the next fortnight, tonight Dermot O’ Leary and Fearne Cotton take on the dastardly drop (9pm), and next week Chris Moyles and Andi Peters play for charity.
  • This Sunday is BOTHERSOP Sunday, £5.50 entry hold ’em tournament. Previous weeks have been a lot of fun, you’re all invited to play regardless of ability or BotherSOP league standings. Details here.
  • Yesterday we wrote on Twitter that ITV are filming a pilot for a show called My Man Can in Germany (if you live in the Cologne area you can get tickets through Applause Store – filming is in a fortnight). It’s apparently been a hit in several countries but what what we’ve learnt is when the bumpf says “it’s been a hit” what it tends to actually mean is “it’s been broadcast”. This said, this does look like quite good fun and very much in the Beat the Star mould even if my gut feeling says poker chips are too fiddly for Saturday Night:

http://youtu.be/T4Omvd6fnH0

Ended in disaster

By | February 2, 2012
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Long term readers know we like a banging remix, I found this linked to on Facebook this morning:

Very good. It’s been on Youtube for years by the looks of things, but through accident or design the bloke who did it spelt ‘Krypton’ wrong.

Herbie

By | February 1, 2012
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OK. so we had a look at the Catchphrase app last weekend so as it’s quiet why don’t we have a look at the original US version of the show with Art James? Things to note: 1) the scoring system is quite crude, 2) Mr Chips is called Herbie and 3) the animation music is quite jolly:

http://youtu.be/y41kVrF6hRs (can’t embed, sorry)

The show didn’t last past 13 weeks in the US. The show was made in 1985.